Hammer.



PATENTED APR. 28, 1903.

G. H. ROWE.

HAMMER.

APPLICIATION FILED Duo. 15. 190;.

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GEORGE HENRY ROWE, OF ENNIS, TEXAS.

HAMMER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 726,466, dated April28, 1903.

Application filed December 15. 1902- Serial No. 135,261. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HENRY Rows, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ennis, in the county of Ellis and State of Texas, haveinvented a new and useful Hammer, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates generally to hammers, and more particularly to anail-pulling attachment adapted to be used in connection with theordinary claw-hammer now in use.

The object of the invention is to provide an attachment by which longnails can be pulled without placing a block beneath the hammer whilepulling the nail; and a still further object is to provide an attachmentby means of which a nail without a head can be pulled with the same caseand facility as a nail with a head.

Another object of the invention is to provide an attachment which willnot interfere with the general construction or operation of an ordinaryclaw-hammer; and with these objects in view the invention consists,essentially, in providing a recess upon the outer side of one of theclaws and pivoting a dog therein, said dog having a nose adapted toengage the nail, the opposite end of the dog being enlarged in order tobear against the nail when the hammer is rocked upon'the head or facefor the purpose of pulling the nail.

The invention consists also in certain details of construction andnovelties of combination, all of which will be fully describedhereinafter and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this invention, Figure 1 is aperspective view of a hammer constructed in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a hammer embodying myinvention, the nail to be pulled having been inserted in the recess ofthe side of the claw. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a hammer embodyingmy invention and illustrating the first step in the pulling operation.Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Inasmuch as my invention is applicable to ordinary claw-hammers, I haveshown the invention applied to such construction of hammer, and byreferring to the drawings it will be noted that the hammer A comprisesthe central or slotted portion A, the head or face portion A and theclaw portion A One of the claws has a recess B cut in the outer sidethereof, said recess being open at the upper and lower ends, and theWall E is slightly inclined, while the wall B adjacent to the centralportion of the hammer, has a considerable inclination, as most clearlyshown.

A dog 0 is pivoted within the recess B, said dog being of a thicknessequal to the depth of the recess, as most clearly shown in Fig. 4, saiddog being pivoted by means of a screw or bolt D, which passes throughthe dog into the claw portion of the hammer, and this screw or bolt ismade of the best grade of steel in order to stand the heavy strainplaced thereon. The inner or upper end of the dog Ois constructed with asharp nose 0, which is adapted to bite into the nail E, and the lower orouter end 0 of the dog is enlarged and curved, as shown, and bearingagainst said lower end is a spring F, the tendency of which is to throwthe large end 0 of the dog toward the wall B of the recess B. Thisaction of the spring will force the back of the upper or inner endagainst the wall B and thereby prevent rattling. In operation the hammeris arranged in the position shown in Fig. 2 and the nail insertedbetween the dog 0 and the wall B of the recess B. The hammer is thentilted upon the head or face thereof, and as soon as the hammer is sotilted the lower end of the dog coming in contact with the lower portionof the nail will throw the upper end or sharp noseG into engagement withthe nail, biting into the same, and as the tilting operation iscontinued the nail will be lifted or drawn from the wood.

In case the nail is of extraordinary length the hammer can be movedbackwardly in a reversed position and a fresh grip obtained upon thenail, and then the operations just described are repeated, and inthismanner the longest nails can be extracted without employing any block orother object beneath the hammer.

Furthermore, it is obvious that my invention, acting as it does upon theshank of a nail instead of the head, can pull a nail without a headequally as wellas one having the proper head. The attachment beingarranged upon one side of the claw portion of the hammer does notinterfere in the least with the ordinary operations of the said hammer,and the claw portion can be used the same as usual.

Of course it will be understood that the screws or bolts which areemployed for holding the dog and spring in place may be readilyunscrewed should the dog or spring be broken, and by this arrangement anew dog or spring could be quickly and easily replaced for the brokenone.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A hammer having a recess in the side thereof, a dog pivoted in saidrecess and having a sharp nose, the opposite end of said dog beingenlarged and adapted to bear against the nail when the hammer is rockedor tilted upon the face thereof.

2. A hammer having a recess in the side thereof, a dog pivoted in saidrecess, said dog having a sharp nose at one end, the opposite end beingenlarged and adapted to engage a nail when the hammer is rocked ortilted upon its head or face, and a spring adapted to bear against thedog for the purpose specified.

GEORGE HENRY ROWE. Witnesses:

CURTIs B. KNIGHTEN, PHELPS TERRY.

